My name is Angie Ficek and I am a Program Evaluator at Professional Data Analysts, Inc. (PDA), a small firm in Minneapolis, MN that specializes in public health evaluation. Every once in a while I include timelines in my reports and/or presentations. I know there are many tools out there to create timelines, including Office …
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Hi! We are Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and Creative Advisor of this blog and Joseph Barnes (Senior Partner at ImpactReady). Today we are going to talk about the work ImpactReady is sponsoring to develop new ideas for using creativity and Dataviz to celebrate the International Year of Evaluation. Like many evaluators, we have been …
Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Recently, Sara Vaca shared her 3 most remarkable evaluation moments and challenged the rest of us to share ours, so here are my 3 moments! Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. – Rose Kennedy 1. Program evalu-what? My doctoral work in Educational …
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Hi everyone! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and occasional Saturday poster. Today I’d like to chat about a few people who have shaped the way I approach and appreciate evaluation. Lesson Learned: Feminism is for everybody (…thanks bell hooks). “The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.” I carry this message …
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Hey aea365ers, Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with an update on what YOU are reading. Each year, we look at the top posts from the past year. We have to wait a bit since some posts get significant readership weeks or even months later! Lessons Learned: Here are the top posts of 2014, …
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Hello Evaluation Learners! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Today, I’m writing about AEA’s Summer Evaluation Institute, a fabulous learning opportunity coming up soon. Anyone who knows me knows that two things I love are learning, and meeting with evaluation colleagues, and this is the perfect opportunity to do both. Registration is …
Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca (@visualbrains), independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. Evaluators are very interesting people, whose experiences are as worth exploring as the people we work with. So I had this idea: wouldn’t it be great to know the top 3 stories/moments that most influenced each evaluator? I think it …
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun”, Albert Einstein. Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and recently appointed Creative Advisor of this blog. To start contributing I thought of writing some posts about how creativity intertwines with evaluation. This is Part II of a two-part post. You can find Part I here. Lesson Learned: Evaluation is …
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Hi there! We’re Anjie Rosga, Director, and Natalie Blackmur, Communications Coordinator, at Informing Change, a strategic consulting firm dedicated to increasing effectiveness and impact in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. In working with clients large and small, we’ve found that organizations are in a better position to learn if they take the time to prepare …
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Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, new(ish) member of the aea365 curating team and sometimes Saturday poster. Last year Sheila posed the question What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? One of the responses resonated with me, as it represented my relationship with evaluation as a professional: I would love to …
